Changes/IoTEditionPromotion

Promote IoT to an Edition

Summary

Promote Fedora IoT to an official Fedora Edition.

Owner

• Name: Peter Robinson
• Email: pbrobinson@gmail.com
• Responsible WG: IoT

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 33
• Last updated: 2020-08-04
• FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

As part of the newly-approved Edition Promotion Process, this promotes Fedora IoT to Edition status alongside Workstation and Server.

Full status is documented in the IoT docs. This change is primarily a paperwork exercise as the necessary work has been completed or is in-progress.

Benefit to Fedora

Makes Fedora IoT more prominent, which will help spread adoption. This in turn will help drive improvements in Fedora IoT and other ostree-based deliverables. It also gives Fedora a strong presence in the IoT ecosystem.

Scope

• Proposal owners: See the IoT docs

• Other developers: N/A

• Release engineering: work already completed

• Policies and guidelines: N/A

• Trademark approval: Granted

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A

How To Test

Test cases

Dependencies

See the IoT docs

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) Delay promotion until F34
• Contingency deadline: F33 Final release date
• Blocks release? No

Documentation

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/iot/